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MAROON AND GOLD
Tuesday, November 22, 1949
Maroon and Gold
Edited and printed by students of Elon
College. Published bi-weekly during the
college year under the auspices of the Board
of Publication.
Entered as second class matter at 'the
Post Office at Elon College, N. C., under
the Act of March 8, 1879. Delivered by
mail, $1.50 the college year, $.50 the
quarter.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Bob Wright Editor-In-Chief
William Sinclair Managing Editor
A1 Godwin Feature Editor
Walter Graham Staff Photographer
Luther N. Byrd Faculty Advisor
SPORTS STAFF
Rocco Sileo Sports Editor
George Stanley .... Assistant Sports Editor
Joe Spivey Assistant Sports Editor
Jean Pittman Girls’ Sports
Joe Bryson Boys’ Sports
Freddie Williamson * Staff Cartoonist
Alvin Pate Staff Cartoonist
George Seay Boys’ Sports
BUSINESS BOARD
Evelyn M. Graham Business Manager
Wynona Womack .... Circulation Manager
B. G. Frick Printer
Jack Tavormina Make-Up Man
Jack Steele Press Man
REPORTERS
Jennings Berry Robert Jones
Jane Boone Maynard Miles
Waldo Dickens Bill Williams
Hal Foster Freddie Williamson
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1949
V FOR SAFETY’S SAKE
While intensive efforts are underway to
make the people of North Carolina more
conscious of the need for highway safety
within the Tar Heel state, it behooves
the authorities of Elon College to look
about them and spot two extremely haz
ardous points within the environs of the
college and town.
The newspapers of North Carolina pub
lish daily a box score of highway blood
shed within the state, and it is only by
the grace of God and good fortune that
no serious, mahap fatal, accidents have
been recorded at these two danger spots
adjoining our college campus.
No one familiar with the community
needs to be told where these two danger
points are. However, just in case someone
has failed to observe them it is well to
take a look at traffic conditions at the
northern entrance to the campus, from
Highway 100 and alsp at the intersection
of Main Street and Highway 100 at the
northwest corner of the campus.
Hundreds of cars, driven by students,
faculty and visitors, emerge from the
northern entrance of the campus each and
every day, and drivers and occupants lit
erally take their lives in their hands with
every such exit, for 'a driver must thrust
the front of his or her car almost into
the stream of highway traffic before it is
possible to see approaching vehicles on
the highway.
There are many cars each day that
emerge into and across the* highway at
the northwest corner of the campus, com
ing either from the main business sec
tion of the town or from the Shallow Ford
road in the direction of the Veteran’s
Apartments and the new faculty homes
north of town.
The improvements made during the
past summer on Highway 100 were, in a
certain senee, a boon to the town, but they
seem to have accentuated the speed of traf
fic moving east and west. The new broad
street, with its long straight stretch, seem
to invite speed, and the drivers press with
heavy foot on their accelerators.
The solution of the problem at both
danger points would seem to lie in the in
stallation of a pair of stoplights. These
lights would break the speed of east-west
traffic alon^ Highway 100 and give cars
an interval of safety to enter the highway,
either from the campus entrance or from
Main Street and Shallow Ford Road.
Motorists often call stoplights in small
towns an aggravation but a bit of aggrava
tion is far better than the grief which
would ensure after a fatal crash at one of
these dangerous intersections.
>«■»»
al's alley
By AL GODWIN
‘For a better Elon’
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a man!
It’s super . . . Nope! It’s a BEAR! Yep!
It’s a bear. If you don’t believe it ask
Jerry Allen aobut it.
It seems that Jerry Allen, Harry Farmer
and Tom Skinker went out on a prowl
through the woods a few days ago and
Jerry became separated from the other
two. He was found climbing out of a little
stream covered with mud from head to
toe. Poor Jerry had been attacked by a
bear. After explaining the situation to
Harry and Tom the three of them began
looking for the bear. All that could be
found were the tracks.
Now these boys came back to school and
caused quite a bit of excitement in one of
the dorms. It seems that some of the boys
doubted the word of Jerry. To prove the
the story was no fluke, Jerry and Harry
took another party on a bear hunt that
night to the same spot. Again they were
unsuccessful in locating a bear. But!
There were tracks. There was a place
where the boys decided the bear had been
sleeping. A drawing was made of the
footprint (which had four toes) to show
the people who so untactfully doubted the
word of the first party. I have heard that
a number of people who have conducted
nature study have been called in on the
case, the first being Dr. Reynolds. That
I cannot swear to, but I do know that there
has been a lot of bear hunting done in
these parts in the last few days.
If anyone else has seen a bear in these
parts, or if you have heard of one being
in these parts, please let Jerry know about
it. I think he wants to go back again and
get a look at that bear. It is probably the
only one within miles of here.
♦ * *
All of you people who saw “Room Ser
vice” here on the campus enjoyed it (I
think). I just wish you could have seen
the performance of that show that the
Players put on in Burlington. The perfor
mance was approximately thirty minutes
longer, not that anything was left out in
the campus shows, but because of the ad
libs that were put in on the Burlington
stage. The show was practically rewrit
ten during the performance. Mbrtha Vea-
zy did a wonderful job as prompter and
almost went mad. There were so many
ad libs that Martha could hardly keep up
with the show. I only wish that all of you
could have seen it in Burlington.
Mr. J. B. Long (Long’s Dept. Store), of
Elon College, was responsible for the show
being in Burlington. The Lions Club sold
tickets for the show and there was a
large crowd present. These people are to
be congratulated for their work. Without
their help the show would not have been
a success. The Players were treated to a
steak supper prior to the performance
This treat was well received and gave the
Players more fighting spirit on the stage.
Here’s thanks to Mr. Long and the Lions
Club. I would also like to thank the Bur
lington Times-News for the wonderful
publicity that they gave the show.
I hear that Dr. Smith has applied for a
position with the “We Never Sleep Col
lection Agency.”
Thanks to somebody and company. AT
LAST we have locks o* the doors of Oak
Lodge. Pretty gold (brass) ones. Every
body come over and get a look.
Well we are practically at the end of as-
other quarter. When we come back, the
football season will be over. There will be
Mew subjects on your schedule and many
other changes., Hope that all of you have
a nice Thanksgiving holiday, and I’ll see
you at the Guilford game.
the
yankee peddler
By BOB WRIGHT
This fall weather brings to mind the
story about the child who was relating his
parents’ success on a hunting trip. “Mam
ma killed a deer, and Daddy killed a fifth.”
* *
The other day we heard about a father
who claimed that Elon College was the
ruination of his child. Taught him to
spell “taters” with a “p.”
* *
Wonder if “Mule Train” wiU ever re
place the automobile?
* * ♦
Headline in THE TECO ECHO of
ECTC: “Self-Help Students To Have 10
per cent Increase, Change Begins Winter.”
Wouldn’t surprise us if our waiters put in
for transfers.
* ♦ *
In looking through the exchange pa
pers, we see that most of the North State
colleges are having Sadie Hawkins Day
festivities. We don’t need a special day
for that at Elon—it goes on all the time.
* * ♦
Howard White, TIMES-NEWS editor,
wonders why more Burlington people
don’t attend the productions of the Elon
Players. The Players can go him one bet
ter—they’d like to know wh%^ the Elon
students don’t attend.
* ♦ ♦
Then there’s the student who, when
asked about his major, replied quite
blithely, “Extra-curricular activities.”
It Ain’t Necessarily So Department. “All
things come to him who waits.” Ask any
one who sweats out the cafeteria line.
* * *
If you feel the urge to whistle,
Do it any place but in the P. O.
For the look you’ll get from Whitesell
Shouldn’t happen to a dog with B.O.
On being told about the first Thanks
giving, a little boy replied, ‘Wot, no foot
ball game?”
We apologize for the typographical er
ror in the lead on the High School Day
story in the last issue. Believe us, it wasn’t
so!
JUST LOOK WHO'S LUNCHING!!
If
A few of the girls in the Home Economics Department show off some of the new equipment as
they sit down to lunch on the, third floor of Alamance. Left to right in the picture, the girls are
Phyllis Tucker, of Kannapolis, Florence Gilbert, of Dunn, Dolores^ Evans, of Roanoke, Va., Helen
Jones Daniels, of Elon College, Shirley Joyner, of Franklin, Va., and Beverly Simpson, of Haw River
New Life In ^Home Ec’’ This Year
THANKSGIVING
This week brings to us Americans the
one religious holiday which is absolutely
American in its origin, for it was our pio
neer ancestors who first set aside a day on
which to give thanks to God for His bless
ings during the year. It is true that other
races and other lands had their harvest
festivals and similar events, but it re
mained for America to set aside a day and
call it Thanksgiving Day.
As we come to this Thanksgiving Day of
1948, it behooves us Americans to really
give thanks that we are Americans and
that we live in a land of liberty and plen
ty," for there are so many millions of peo
ple scattered over the face of the earth
who* have neither liberty nor plenty.
Too many of us are prone to gri pe and
grouse over real or fancied wrongs, never
stopping to think how much the blessings
outweigh the wrongs. So, let us Here at
Elon stop this week and count how many
real blessings have been showered upon
us during the past twelve months, both as
individuals and as a college community.
And, too, as many members of both the
student body and faculty prepare for hol
iday trips to our homes or to places of
amusement, let us offer up a brief prayer
that all may pass safely through the haz
ards that every holiday season brings and
that each and everyone may return whole
and hearty for the opening of a new quar
ter next Monday morning.
By LUCY EVERETTE
The Elon College Home Eco
nomics Department has taken on
renewed life this year under the
direction of Miss Louise Ramsey,
and the third floor of Alamance
is the scene of interesting activity
in the regular classes by day and
in a series of adult education
classes by night.
The enrollment in the depart
ment shows a substantial increase
this fall over last year, and the
interest of the girls has been en
hanced by the addition of several
thousand dollars worth of new
E^-l'ijipment and furnishings.
The departnient offers ampl^
space for all its activities, for it
has three large laboratories in ad
dition to the Home Manageme/ii
House. There is a foods labora
tory, a clothing laboratory, a large
and well-equipped dining room,
a lecture room, a fitting room
with triple mirrors and a large
storage room.
Equipment added recently in
cludes five electric sewing ma
chines for the clothing laboratory
and four new electric stoves and
a roomy electric refrigerator for
the foo^ laboratory.
The dining room has a charming
set of new china in the Fiesta pat
tern. This china in yellow, acqua,
grey and rose pink helped to
make attractive breakfast tables
when two groups of students serv
ed breakfast recently. On one
table a Swedish net cloth furnish
ed a background for china in yel
low and acqua, as Elna Doris Huey
and Della Crutchfield served as
host and hostess. A rose-pink
rough linen cloth was used with
the rose-pink and grey china, as
Dolores Evans and Florence Gil
bert served as host and hostess
at the other table,
ble.
The clothing laboratory has
been the scene of constant activity
all the fall, with the girls in
Clothing 13 making interesting
additions to their wardrobes. The
Adult Education Class, which has
met once each week at night since
late September, has been learning
the finer points in the making of
suits and coats.
While teaching her classes in
[various Home Economics courses.
Miss Ramsey has been stressing
the advantages that accrue from
such training . One big advantage
listed is better preparation for
home making and family life, it
being cited that actual statistics
show fewer divorces in families
where the wife is a Home Eco
nomics major.
^t is pointed out, too, that wo
men trained in Home Economics
have excellent vocational oppor
tunities in various fields, such as [
teaching. Home Demonstration
work, radio work, dietics, design
ing, advertising for various food'
and clothing industries, social
work and as family relations ad-!
visers. Actual records show that
very few women trained in Home
Economics appeared in the ranks,
of the unemployed during the De-'
pression Decade. I
Miss Ramsey also cite« a dis
tinct social advantage of such
training, pointing out that the
Home Economics majors ar
trained in the finer points of en
tertaining and thu,s acquire the
poise and confidence in their abil
ity to mingle iif society, either as
hostess or guest.
The work o:^ the Home Econom
ics students this fall has not been,
confined to classwork alone, for
there is an active Home Econom
ics club, which held its first meet
ing of the year on Monday night.
October lOtb.
Officers chosen at that time in
cluded Gaynelle Sutton, presi
dent; Jane Peterson, vice-presi
dent; and Florence Gilbert, secre
tary and treasurer. Committee
chairmen were also appointed,
including Eleanor Abel for the
program committee, Elna Doris
Huey for the social committee,
Lucy Everette for publicity, Mar
jorie Matthews on place and
equipment, and Betty Truitt for
membership.
The program committee has
been authorized to prepare a year
book for the club, which is to in
clude the outlineo f the yesur’s
program. Some of the projects
planned by the club for the year
included a departmental exhibit
for High School Day, a Freshman
and Faculty Tea, a night class irt
etiquette, a foods demonstration,
a Pre-Easter Sunrise Breakfast, a
bridal tea, a flower arrangement
exhibit and a fashion show.
College Nurse Is True ‘Angel Of Mercy"
By WILLIAM SINCLAIR
Mrs. James Hailey, the Elon
College nurse, may surely be
called an ‘Angel of Mercy” by
some of the many students she
has visited and treated this fall.
Many do not realize her import
ance on the campus until they are
sick and need her care.
Mrs. Hailey may not be Flor- j
ence Nightingale, who was hailed;
long ago as “the lady with the!
lamp,” but many Elon students do
know her as “the lady with the!
flashlight.” Most of the students!
who need care go to her office in
West Dormitory, but others have!
been ill in their rooms or apart
ments, and they have found that
she will take her flashlight and
go where needed at all hours of
the night.
The writer is oneo f those who
have been forced to call on her
for such care, dnd it was through
this medium that he came to
know her willing spirit so well
and became interested in her and
her work.
Mrs| Hailey was born in Wins
ton-Salem and lived there until
she was of high school age, at
which time she removed to Mayo-
dan. Her high school training
C
MRS. JAMES HAILEY
was secured in Madison High
School, whevre she received her
diploma on a hot day in May
1931.
Not long after graduation she
heard the call *f matrimony and
was so enraptured that she walk-
;ed the heavenly aisle. It seemed
then that her career was mapped
as a home-maker, but another
step loomed in 1942 when her
husband was overseas fighting for
their future home and safety. It
I was then that she enrolled as Red
j Cross Nurse’s Aide at Leaksville
j General Hospital and began walk
ing the hospital corridors on er
rands of mercy.
After the War she acepted em
ployment with Dr. Robinson in
Burlington, where she came in
contact with many persons afflict
ed with various diseases and de
termined to train for her life of
service. Being married, ordinary
nursing schools were impossible,
so she enrolled for correspon
dence training and received the
rating of Practical Nurse.
Along with long and gruelling
hours of study she got her experi
ence training while nursing real‘
cases. The first one was a very
old man, afflicted at times witb
lapses of memory and given to» ■
the contrariness of , extreme agC’.
She drew high praise for the
care she gave him.
This fall she began her duties',
at Elon College, and since that
time her life has been a busy one,
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